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On Sun, 11 Jan 2026 16:01:26 -0000 (UTC), Markus Robert Kessler wrote:

> On Sat, 3 Jan 2026 21:57:23 -0000 (UTC) Lawrence D?Oliveiro wrote:
>
>> And what?s with this reluctance to compile from source, anyway?
>> It?s part of the bread and butter of running any Linux distro.
>
> Yes, debian has it and openSuSE has it. And I can confirm that
> compiling from scratch is not as easy as it looked like. I tried to
> create a package for Mageia, based on the original tarball, but
> there are plenty of dependencies not visible during
> configure/make/makeinstall.

On Debian and derivatives, if you want to build your own version of a
package, a quick ?apt-get build-dep ®package¯? will get you all of the
dependencies for the standard version of that package. Which should be
most, if not all, of what you need.

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